Tell us about something you (or a person close to you) have done recently (or not so recently) that has made you really, unabashedly proud.

Stephen as Robin Hood October 30, 2015

Whitney Houston – His Eye Is On The Sparrow

My brother Stephen Vincent Palmer!! Back in 1963 when my parents took him to the doctors to see why he was not speaking those so-called medical professionals wrote him off as being “emotionally disturbed”!! How a then two-year old could be emotionally disturbed is beyond me but my parents said No we are Not going to institutionalize our son! During the 1960s nobody heard of or used the term Autism. Children like Stephen were put away institutions like Creedmor and Willowbrook where they were beaten, starved, abused and lay on the floor in their own waste. Sometimes people…